GH2 is mainly a pure movie record machine IMO

The difference between entry level is, GH2 has many flexible choice of movie setting and provide Full HD 1080p in 60fps and also very "Handycam" style of swiveling LCD + it has Touch Screen which is some how cool

There are not much review about its initial so I think to question about the quality is a little bit early but what I think GH2 is more made for Video lovers

in Auto Focus A55 is definitely faster but in exchange of fixed maximum aperture at F3.5 (which means even your lens has F1.4, the AF will always stick at F3.5)

for Contrast Detection is a much slower however GH2 has the flexibility to adjust the Aperture Setting during recording

This post has been edited by wingster: Sep 24 2010, 02:11 PM

Haha I think D-Preview might get the pre-production A55 heh?

There are few things which is not true :

- No Live View when burst shooting (THEY have live view in burst shooting as I tested in 3fps/6fps normal mode and surprisingly they can even use 10 fps/7fps(for A33) on live view with AF focus)

- AF is pretty responsive enough to take action photos but obviously not on par on 1D Mk4 or even Nikon D3x which is many times expensive than this camera

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Just some minor correction on the statements, no offence keh xD

In Movie features I was really impress by the Panasonic GH2 as it gives all the thing that I want for movie recording and from what I saw the preview videos, the touchscreen really do good just like the handycam !!

Problem is does Lumix G-Series has flexible lens of choice (like adapter?) .... :< which really bother me



This post has been edited by wingster: Sep 26 2010, 10:48 AM

But the GH-2 design is pretty good in video and due to the sensor size, it is much suitable for lesser shallower DoF video which is something I would consider

GF1 have better access control + handling, good low ISO performance, more tele-range (x2 crop factor)

The current lens line up for pancake is top performer than the Sony NEX E-Mount lens.

NEX have lesser control and handling but smaller sizes + good high ISO performance , more wider-range (x1.5 factor)

It has less impressive lens optic in terms of sharpness and IQ but very wide 3rd party adapter range (same goes to micro 4/3).

In Pancake (the 20mm), Panasonic performs excellent quality :] but the price is expensive while in NEX it has average quality but the price is cheaper